This is a list of

Sasanian The Sasanian () or Sassanid Empire, officially known as the Empire of Iranians (, ) and also referred to by historians as the Neo-Persian Empire, was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th-8th centuries AD. Named ...

inscription, which include remaining official inscriptions on rocks, as well as minor ones written on bricks, metal, wood, hide,

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, and gems. Their significance is in the areas of

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, and study of religion in Persia. Some of the inscriptions are lost and are known only through tradition.

List of Sasanian inscriptions

Early royal Sasanian inscriptions were trilingual:

Middle Persian Middle Persian or Pahlavi, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg () in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire. For some time after the Sasanian collapse, Middle P ...

(in

Inscriptional Pahlavi Inscriptional Pahlavi is the earliest attested form of Pahlavi scripts, and is evident in clay fragments that have been dated to the reign of Mithridates I (''r.'' 171–138 BC). Other early evidence includes the Pahlavi inscriptions of Arsaci ...

), Parthian (in

Inscriptional Parthian Inscriptional Parthian is a script used to write Parthian language on coins of Parthia from the time of Arsaces I of Parthia (250 BC). It was also used for inscriptions of Parthian (mostly on clay fragments) and later Sassanian Empire, Sassanian p ...

) and

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

. Since the rule of

Narseh Narseh (also spelled Narses or Narseus; pal, 𐭭𐭥𐭮𐭧𐭩, New Persian: , ''Narsē'') was the seventh Sasanian King of Kings of Iran from 293 to 303. The youngest son of Shapur I (), Narseh served as the governor of Sakastan, Hind and ...

, Greek was omitted.

Book Pahlavi Pahlavi is a particular, exclusively written form of various Middle Iranian languages. The essential characteristics of Pahlavi are: *the use of a specific Aramaic-derived script; *the incidence of Aramaic words used as heterograms (called '' ...

script replaced Inscriptional Pahlavi in late Middle Persian inscriptions. File:Shapur Kabe Zartosht.png, Parthian version of

Shapur I's inscription at the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht Shapur I's Ka'ba-ye Zartosht inscription (shortened as Shapur-KZ, ŠKZ, SKZ), also referred to as The Great Inscription of Shapur I, and ''Res Gestae Divi Saporis'' (RGDS), is a trilingual inscription made during the reign of the Sasanian king S ...

File:Naqsh-e Rajab - Shapur parade - detail of inscription.jpg, Parthian (above), along with Greek (below) versions of Shapur inscription in Naqsh-e Rajab File:Taq-e Bostan - Pahlavi writing.jpg, Shapur III's inscription in Taq-e Bostan File:Sassanid text.JPG, Inscription of Apasa the Scribe File:Meshkin Shahr Pahlavi Inscription Original.jpg, Sasanian inscription in Meshginshahr File:Stone cross with Pahlavi inscription.jpg, Stone cross with Book Pahlavi writings. Valiyapalli Church in

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, India File:MIK - Sassaniden Pahlavi-Monogramm.jpg, Sasanian relief with Inscriptional Pahlavi

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ʾpr, which stands for ''abzūn farr'', meaning "May his '' farr'' increase!"

References

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